Senior Cost Manager

Cumming Group UK & Europe; Paris; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Cumming Group UK & Europe is a leading international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate and infrastructure. We support clients with project delivery, budget estimation and cost control, while emphasising collaboration and performance excellence.

The role involves delivering for small to medium projects, supporting larger programmes, and contributing to knowledge sharing and strategic initiatives across service and sector levels.

Qualifications

• Deliver results in a client facing role.
• Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.
• Show resilience and resourcefulness with complex challenges.
• Commitment to outperforming client expectations.
• Demonstrate integrity and stakeholder trust.
• Flexibility in changing requirements and routines.
• Lead and motivate teams including supply chain.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day support for small to medium projects and assist larger programmes.
• Support knowledge capture, sharing and strategic initiatives at service/sector level.
• Prepare budgets, cost plans and client reports.
• Assist risk and value management.
• Contract administration incl. valuations, forecasts, cost reports, project meetings.
• Prepare bills of quantities, schedules of rates or other cost evaluation methods.
• Ensure timely, high-quality outputs and deliverables.
• Assist performance management of personnel to meet deadlines.
• Adhere to Practice Health & Safety and Quality Assurance policies.
• Engage with procurement: tender evaluation, contractor selection and contract documentation.
• Develop business via networking and client relationship building.
• Pursue continuing professional development.

Skills

Client facing

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Adaptability

Delivery excellence

Communication

Team management

Resourcefulness

Client relationship development

Education

MRICS / equivalent qualification

Degree in construction / cost management / engineering / QS

Understanding of leadership techniques

Tools

MS Outlook

MS Word

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

Job description

Cumming Group is an international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate, and infrastructure. With a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and performance excellence, we support some of the world's most respected clients across diverse range of sectors.

• Provide support for day-to-day delivery responsibility for small to medium projects, support larger projects/programmes of work and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks with minimal supervision.
• Support knowledge capture, sharing and innovation. Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service and sector level.
• Prepare budget estimates, cost plans and client reports.
• Support risk and value management.
• Contract administration including preparation of valuations, forecasts, cost reports and attendance at project meetings.
• Preparation of bills of quantities, schedules of rates, or other methods of work evaluation.
• Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner to a high standard of quality.
• Support the delivery of work through proactive involvement where appropriate and through performance management of personnel to ensure work is completed in a timely manner to a high-quality standard.
• Undertake service delivery is in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Practice, particularly Health and Safety and Quality Assurance.
• Provide services in compliance with the client's corporate governance procedures where applicable.
• Achieve all objectives as required by the annual performance review process.
• Work to deadlines set by the Project Team Leader.
• Filing of project correspondence in accordance with requirements.
• Support evaluation of tenders, contractor selection and contract documentation.
• Develop our business; networking and developing client relationships.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Deliver results in a client facing role including:
• Confidently respond to a client request; as well as understanding when to elevate client issues to senior members of the team.
• Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.
• Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges.
• Commitment to outperforming client expectations.
• Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.
• Dealing with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment.
• Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines.
• Show good leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain.
• Starting to manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Ideally degree qualified: construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying or other RICS accredited degree.
• Working towards MRICS / other equivalent qualification or experience.
• Developed understanding of leadership techniques and ideally some formal leadership training.
• 4+ years’ experience.
• Experience in the Real Estate sector is desirable.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters.
• Experience of industry standard forms of contract, typically JCT and NEC.
• Basic pre and post contract technical cost management skills.
• Good core technical skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Good IT skills for the role including MS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Developing interpersonal skills with both client and staff.